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malthusian:: | Spocien Dictionary
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Malthusian ideas underly all population doom analyses.
From the guardian.co.uk
Malthusian ideas continue to have considerable influence.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I'm a malthusian not an anarchist.
From the economist.com
Malthusian panics about how to feed the world are not new, but the question has added urgency now as available resources dwindle.
From the guardian.co.uk
Basically it is that sort of attitude that makes me think that its time for the return of the some good old malthusian population control.
From the newscientist.com
Malthusian as their policies may be, they surely do not believe the world is in danger due to over-population or the environmental hazards posed by industrial progress.
From the infowars.com
Malthusian growth is where new technology leads to a rise in living standards which itself leads to a rise in population, taking living standards back down again.
From the forbes.com
- Of or relating to Thomas Malthus or to Malthusianism; "Malthusian theories"
- (malthusianism) Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence
- Malthusianism is a school of ideas derived from the political/economic thought of the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus, as laid out in his 1798 writings, An Essay on the Principle of Population, which describes how unchecked population growth is exponential while the growth of the food supply was expected to be arithmetical...
- Malthusianism refers to the political/economic thought of Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus whose ideas were first developed during the industrial revolution. ...
- (Malthus (demon)) In demonology, Malthus (also Halphas, Malthas, or Malthous) is an Earl of Hell, commanding 26 legions of demons, who is said to have a rough voice when speaking. He is often depicted in the shape of a stork.
- Of, or relating to Malthus or his views on human population and world resources
- (Malthusianism) The idea, first advanced by Thomas Malthus two centuries ago, that population growth tends to outstrip the resources available to support it. ...
- The theory of Thomas Malthus (c.1780), who believed that the world's population would increase to the threshold of starvation. Cf Limits to Growth.
